Aamir
Masculine · “prince”
Aamir is overwhelmingly a boys’ name — 2,691 boys against 6 girls since 1880.
Aamir is a prince in Arabic — and it also means prosperous or inhabited, because two similar words have been used for it for centuries.
How old is the name Aamir?
Aamir first appears in US birth records in 1974 — 51 years ago. The typical Aamir is a kid of about 11 — this name's wave is very recent. About 2,700 people named Aamir are estimated to be alive in the US today.
When was the name Aamir most popular?
Aamir peaked in 2015, reaching #1252 nationally. Today it ranks #2035, 783 places below that high. See the whole 2015 chart.
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Where it comes from
From aamir to Aamir
The story of Aamir
Amir gave English the word admiral, through the Arabic amir al-bahr, 'commander of the sea', which medieval Latin mangled. The Aamir spelling with a long first vowel is standard in South Asian usage. Aamir Khan is one of India's best-known actors. The name appears in American records in current use.
Meaningscholars disagree
prince; prosperous
Two Arabic words underlie it. Amir, from the root '-m-r meaning 'to command', gives 'prince' or 'commander' — the source of the English admiral. Aamir, from a related root, means 'inhabited', 'prosperous' or 'flourishing'. Both are genuine and the doubled a usually marks the second.
How the name formed
- aamir
- Aamir
Related forms: عامر · Amir · Aamir
Pronouncing Aamir
AH-meer
Two syllables, stress on the second. The doubled a marks a long vowel in South Asian transliteration.
Nicknames for Aamir
Moderate
What the data says
146 years of official birth records
The long climb, and where it stands now
The same years in position rather than babies
- First recorded
- 1974
- Most boys named
- 2015144 — the highest on record
- Peak rank
- #1252reached in 2015
- Change vs 2024
- −11.0%73 in 2025, from 82
Rank is a position, a count is a headcount, and they move independently — a name can hold its rank while the number of babies behind it falls. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration.
Aamir in other languages
The same name elsewhere
- عامر in Arabic — transliteration
- Amir in English — spelling variant
- Aamir in Urdu — same name
Strongest US states over the last decade: Florida, New York, Texas.
Aamirs among us
people named Aamir are estimated to be alive in the US today
About 1 boy in 23,398 born in 2025 was named Aamir
Estimated from SSA birth records and published actuarial life tables. Method
Spellings of Aamir
- #2035
- Aamir on the 2025 chart
- #109
- counting every spelling
The SSA counts spellings, not names. Aamir went to 73 boys in 2025, but Amir and Amiir are the same name said out loud. Together the 6 spellings went to 3,425, which makes it the 109th most-given boys’ name of the year — 1,926 places above the chart.
- Amir3,297
- Aamir73
- Amiir25
and 3 rarer spellings.
About 1 boy in 499 born in 2025 was given one of these spellings — against 1 in 23,398 for Aamir itself.
Spellings are grouped by a fixed rule that folds interchangeable English spellings of one sound (ck/k, ph/f, x/ks, a non-initial y for i) and keeps vowels apart, so Sean and Shawn stay separate names. It errs towards splitting: a family here is never larger than the truth. SSA national data, 2025. Method
Is it right for you
What happens to a name after it peaks
The Franky test
Every popular name lives one long story — a climb, a peak, a slow settling back. Aamir's later chapters haven't been written yet, so we borrowed them: Franky climbed just as high around 1960, and its whole arc is on record. Line the two peaks up, and Franky's path sketches the road Aamir is walking now.
Aamir sits in the calm middle of the cycle — neither chasing a wave nor sliding off one. Middle-of-the-cycle names age slowly and predictably.
A scored estimate from 146 years of naming cycles — not a prophecy. Great names outlive statistics. How this is scored
Where Aamir is headed
Aamir is easing off slowly — about 16% fewer babies a year by 2030 if the trend continues.
Medium confidence — fitted on official counts through 2025.
A damped-trend projection of the official birth data — a sketch of momentum, not a promise. Every name's forecast, ranked.
Aamir beside its neighbors
The names ranked closest to Aamir in 2025, in babies rather than position — the bars are to scale.
US boys given each name in 2025.
The trade-off
- That the English word admiral descends from the same Arabic root is a first-rate etymology.
- Both readings — prince and flourishing — are good ones.
- It is standard across Arabic, Urdu and Persian naming.
- Amir and Aamir are two different Arabic words, easily conflated.
- Several transliterations are in circulation.
- It reads as specifically Muslim or South Asian.
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Frequently asked
- How many Aamirs are there in the world?
- No country counts the world's names, so there is no worldwide figure — anyone quoting one is estimating. About 2,700 people named Aamir are estimated to be alive in the US today.
- How do you spell Aamir?
- Aamir is one of 3 recorded spellings. Amir is the more common one — 3,297 births in 2025 against 73 for Aamir.
- How popular is the name Aamir in 2025?
- Aamir ranks #2035 among US boy names in 2025, with 73 babies given the name.
- How rare is the name Aamir?
- About 1 in every 23,398 US boys born in 2025 was named Aamir — 73 in all.
- Will my child share the name Aamir with classmates?
- Aamir will almost certainly be the only one in school.
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